Scary Pollutants in Your Everyday Life | Care2 Healthy Living

By Judith A. Ross, Moms Clean Air Force Guest Blogger As a first-time mother-to-be I was acutely aware of the environmental toxins around me. Id cross the street or take another route altogether if I saw someone spraying their roses or a lawn service truck parked between me and my destination. Those little yellow flags at the edge of a lawn announcing that it had been treated freaked me out. Without even knowing all the facts, I sensed that chemicals meant to kill garden pests or make the grass grow, were bad for a developing baby. I knew that as long as he was inside me, I had to give my baby the safest and cleanest environment possible. And that what I breathed or ate, he would ingest too. We were intricately and inextricably connected. That was back in the early 1980s. With concerns about air quality and climate change a regular part of the daily discourse, todays m...